Hello! I'm hoping someone can explain to me what's going on.
My Set Up: Asus P8P67 Pro, i5-2500k, MSI GTX460 Cyclone 1GB OC, 8 GB G. Skill Ripjaw 1366, OCZ Vertex 2 60 GB, and a WD Caviar Green 2 TB.
I was recently benching my system (that I just put together) to make sure that everything was working correctly. One of the benches that I ran was the "3DMark Vantage" benchmark.
All of the basic CPU info is correct and is as follows:
Manufacturer: Intel
Family: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @3.30GHz
Architecture: 64-bit
Internal Clock 3.3 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum: 3.3GHz
External Clock: 100.0 MHz
Socket Designation: LGA1155
Type: Blank
Upgrade: Blank
Multicore: 4 Processor Cores
Hyperthreading: N/A
Capabilities: MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, PAE, NX, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
It then goes on to describe the caches and states that:
L1 cache has a capacity of 256KB, is Type: Instruction, Data, Internal, and is 8-Way Set-Associative.
L2 has the exact same settings except with 1MB of capacity.
L3, which has a capacity of 6GB, however, is Type: Instruction, Data, Disabled at Boot, Internal.
I'm wondering if this is normal for the L3 Cache to be disabled at boot? Should I do something to enable it? This is the first time i've built a computer on my own. I noticed some ppl had issues with AMD Caches being disabled and bios updates enabled them, but my MOBO bios is the most recent version (1003) that came out in December 2010.
Any help on what to do would be greatly appreciated!
My Set Up: Asus P8P67 Pro, i5-2500k, MSI GTX460 Cyclone 1GB OC, 8 GB G. Skill Ripjaw 1366, OCZ Vertex 2 60 GB, and a WD Caviar Green 2 TB.
I was recently benching my system (that I just put together) to make sure that everything was working correctly. One of the benches that I ran was the "3DMark Vantage" benchmark.
All of the basic CPU info is correct and is as follows:
Manufacturer: Intel
Family: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @3.30GHz
Architecture: 64-bit
Internal Clock 3.3 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum: 3.3GHz
External Clock: 100.0 MHz
Socket Designation: LGA1155
Type: Blank
Upgrade: Blank
Multicore: 4 Processor Cores
Hyperthreading: N/A
Capabilities: MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, PAE, NX, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
It then goes on to describe the caches and states that:
L1 cache has a capacity of 256KB, is Type: Instruction, Data, Internal, and is 8-Way Set-Associative.
L2 has the exact same settings except with 1MB of capacity.
L3, which has a capacity of 6GB, however, is Type: Instruction, Data, Disabled at Boot, Internal.
I'm wondering if this is normal for the L3 Cache to be disabled at boot? Should I do something to enable it? This is the first time i've built a computer on my own. I noticed some ppl had issues with AMD Caches being disabled and bios updates enabled them, but my MOBO bios is the most recent version (1003) that came out in December 2010.
Any help on what to do would be greatly appreciated!
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